2. BOJ Shifts Policy Framework to Targeting Japan’s Yield Curve(Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan shifted the focus of its monetary stimulus Wednesday from expanding the money supply to controlling interest rates, which some economists deemed as further evidence that BOJ policy had reached the limits of its effectiveness.

3. More Guns to Greet New York After Another Suspiciouus Package(Bloomberg) -- Bomb-sniffing dogs and transportation headaches greeted New Yorkers and visiting dignitaries Monday as the city searched for those responsible for planting the Chelsea dumpster bomb that injured 29 people and a suspicious package found overnight in New Jersey.

7. Cooperman Had Long, Often Costly Alliance With Cohen Family(Bloomberg) -- Leon Cooperman, accused Wednesday of buying shares in Atlas Pipeline Partners after obtaining insider information, has been investing with the family that managed the company for more than a decade. It hasn’t always paid off.

10. It Took Only 12 Hours to Crowdfund $1 Million for House Flipping(Bloomberg) -- Alex Sifakis never raised this much money this fast. The house flipper from Jacksonville, Florida, crowdfunded nine deals totaling more than $9 million through RealtyShares over the last two and a half years. A July deal for $1 million took him just 12 hours.

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2. Fed Meeting Shouldn’t Obscure BOJ’s Moment: Mohamed A. El-Erian(Bloomberg View) -- This week, much attention will focus on the Open Market Committee of the U.S. Federal Reserve, the most powerful central bank in the world, whose actions have global impact. Yet the most informative, and intriguing, policy decision could take place in Tokyo. And the outcome will not only tell us more about Japan’s daunting challenges, but could also signal more clearly what lies ahead for other central banks that continue to operate within an unbalanced macro-economic policy mix.

3. Harvard Does a Trade You Should Never Make: Barry Ritholtz(Bloomberg View) -- The Harvard Management Co., which oversees Harvard University’s endowment and other investments, just released its 2016 annual report. It’s grim reading: The fund had a negative return of 2 percent and was worth about $2 billion less than a year earlier, underperforming its benchmarks by a significant margin.

5. Professors Don’t Feel the Economy’s Pain: Narayana Kocherlakota(Bloomberg View) -- In the eight months since I returned to academia from a six-year stint at the Federal Reserve, I’ve noticed a strange inertia: Despite the shocking experience of a global financial crisis and prolonged economic slump, most macroeconomic research is guided by the same paradigms that prevailed ten years ago.

5. Mylan CEO Testifies: EpiPen Pricing (Bloomberg) -- Heawther Bresch, chief executive of Mylan Inc., testifies before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in Washington about the price of EpiPens.